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It is no wonder that only a few youngsters can give me the correct change if I use cash.
In a recent (2024) study by the University of South Australia, “researchers have found that mathematics homework can sometimes cause more harm than good.”
https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2024/numbers-do-not-add-up-for-maths-homework/
Hmm, since the year 2000, when OECD/PISA began recording the data, there has been a marked decline in math, reading and science capabilities of our Australian students.
https://www.oecd.org/publication/pisa-2022-results/country-notes/australia-e9346d47/#section-d1e17
Those students are now 15 to 39 years in age. The older ones are now making decisions in gov and business.
The majority promote “AGW climate change”, they preach “net zero”, Most say Australian coal fired power plants need to close to save the planet….
But only a few can tell me what 1.3% of 3% of 100% of 1 unit is.
The answer is 0.00039.
If it is true that the Global temp will increase by 1.5 degrees due to CO2 emissions, Australia will be only responsible for an increase of 0.000585 degrees celcius. (if we forget that the oceans and Australia are a CO2 sink)
Dumb down the students and they become useful idiots for a cause. Without critical thought they just parrot what they are told.
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It’s all part of the plan.
Similarly with history and traditional moral values.
Actually, the decline started much earlier than 2000 and is probably traceable to some tine in the 1970’s.
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Absolutely. As teachers’ unions grew more powerful, they gained more and more control over the curricula and classrooms. Alongside this, the Long Slow March installed yet more leftist and socialist activists in the public education bureaucracy. We became aware of the changes when our son was in school, back in the 80s, when teachers began to swap ‘chalk and talk’ for what they described as less formal, less rigid but “more effective” teaching arrangements. Thankfully, both our kids were out of the classroom by the time this nonsense was in full swing but our youngest experienced some issues as a result of the increasingly lax methods.
The fact that this new style of ‘teaching’ is ineffective is easily shown, with reducing standards aligning perfectly with increasing politicisation. The ever-higher sums of taxpayers’ money being thrown at schools neer brings tangible improvement either, because like public health, money isn’t the real problem.
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Strangely, teaching of reading using phonics is making a “come back”
As for arithmetic, when my meal costs $8.20 and I had over $10.20 cash I would hope that it is understood I only want a $2 coin being returned. Wait- am I supposed to only use plastic money?
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Its also nice atimes to have some empathy for you server who may be coming to the end of a tiring shift, has served a couple hundred people doing standard EFT and cash, and then having to instantly adjust to your specific needs.
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Indeed – perhaps that’s what the $2 coin is for ….
Generous!
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David, I have often spoken to friends about the West reaching a zenith in the 70’s. We had a peak in science innovation, culminating in the Apollo moon landings (before the decline of NASA into weather forecasting), the very best cars (muscle), economic good times (page after page of job vacancies in every newspaper, including now-defunct locals), education standards still high (prior to complete teacher indocrination), a hiatus in major conflict (after Vietnam), patriotism (as evidenced in the rise of significant Aussie music and film industries) and not forgetting world popular music (fill in your own blanks). They were probably the best years since the second world war. Sadly, things have declined steadily ever since.
Just be glad you all knew those times.
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“It is no wonder that only a few youngsters can give me the correct change if I use cash.”
Be very careful when using cash, I had some clown give my change as handful of note and coins just dumped in my hand, it was wrong , she misread the cash register screen. Back when I was young, I was taught to count it back into the customers hand.
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Solar?
The Andrews Government has been wiping out every alternative to solar and wind and there are agreed to be absolutely disastrous consequences in the following years. Forget modular nuclear. We have run out of time.
The Victorian Labor government has been on a long campaign to wipe out gas as well as coal. Without any idea how to replace them. It is even illegal to pick up fallen sticks in the forest for your fire.
In ‘The Australian’ on the well planned massive gas shortage in Victoria “Australia will need more than one LNG import terminal: AGL”
“Victoria may be softening its ideological opposition to gas”
Incredible. That’s the only problem, ideological government malevolence. We have plenty of gas, the best possible fuel and Melbourne is built for gas, at least since the 1860s. All my Victorian light fittings were gas. We made gas from coal. No longer. It seems we have run out of coal gas we have plenty of other gas. Except it’s all illegal to use. New gas is banned.
While the people responsible for this Andrews government legislated and planned disaster are having urgent meetings, the time is running out to do anything at all about it. The deck chairs are being shuffled at meetings.
I don’t think there has been a more planned economic and practical disaster in Australian history.
But the Labor politicians think this just might change voting intentions so they are starting to worry. Forget responsible government. The Victorian Government saboteurs are worrying people might notice the lights are off, the stoves don’t work, the factories are closed. Really? As in the man made pandemic disaster, the good ship Victoria, the Titanic of Australia has been steered quite deliberately into another iceberg. All to save China from Climate Change?
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Meanwhile the Victorian Liberal Leader is heading to court for his ideological opposition to the idea that women exist. I expect his views on power are also restricted to political power but otherwise identical, that China and Chinese manufacturing must be saved at all costs. You have to wonder how long it will be before he too is making regular trips to Beijing to get his orders and beg for cash.
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And while Victoria owns all the mineral resources including coal and gas, they have found that the Federal government owns the wind, so there is a stand off with off shore wind. Meanwhile both will try to blame commercial power generation and distribution when the owners of all the free energy are at loggerheads trying to please the UN.
Then they get jobs after retirement, like Helen Clarke and now Julie Bishop who is going to solve all the problems of Myanmar for the UN?
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Looks like the pigeons coming home to roost in Danistan are going to crap all over their solar panels.
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I would still love to know why Daniel Andrews exited suddenly. Was it something personal or was a story about to break if he did not?
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We’ve never been really told, have we? There has always been the obligatory “spend more time with the family” comment from other politicians, but the Dictator never proffered that one. I think it might have something to do with that teenage bicyclist he cleaned up prior to becoming Premier. So, back when he was in opposition to the Ted Baillieu LNP government. Just lately there has been some serious chatter on social media and a website devoted to the incident. There’s no doubt the accident has been covered up for years and parts of the police/ ambulance/ media did most of the covering up.
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Here is the United States Military in full action against a soldier who did no wrong.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/joe-bidens-military-cant-reach-recruiting-quota-then/
Disobedience of orders you feel will do you harm or kill you.
Our military worldwide were doing the same…
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The first four comments have neatly framed our situation: we’re stuffed, our “governments” are riddled with self interested teams of white ants.
Essentially, the building is about to collapse on everyone, including the ants.
Trumble, Juli, Dangdrews, Elbowgrease, GHunt.
The world has never been perfect, but I remember when we had a functional democracy, 10% corruption and 90% function.
Now it’s the reverse and there are no lifeboats.
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It appears that the highest levels of structural political power across the Western world are actively facilitating the implosion of their own nations.
Why?
Best I can tell the perpetrators believe themselves on a righteous crusade that will leave themselves to rule over the purified ashes and birth their imagined climate changeless DEI utopia.
Old story I guess.
There was going to be a new apocalyptic religious revival at some point anyway I suppose.
It’s what humans do.
Sad to witness.
There will be lots of casualties.
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The sun’s magnetic field will reverse soon.
It might even happen this year.
Changes in space weather (solar storms) may be expected.
Lefties, don’t worry, it’s completely normal and not caused by “climate change”.
But it’s good to know it will make you panic.
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EV owners should only charge their cars from 100% solar and wind, otherwise they are just driving coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro powered vehicles.
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Not only did our estemed PM fail maths at school he failed science as well
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1422775818182338
Did well in political science though.
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It makes you wonder if these politicians and senior public serpents who are making engineering decisions for which they are utterly unqualified, even know what solar panels do.
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“Solar panels on the roof charging your vehicles overnight” is an even worse statement than reported.
But he did say you used solar panels overnight. This is a really silly statement unless you are in the Northern Arctic circle in summer. And six months if you are in the arctic circle at the south pole.
Even so, not only is the power totally inadequate, say a 6kw for 4 hours, 24kwhr, even 30kwhr per day would take 2 days and nights to charge a 60kwhr battery.
And that does assume you do not need the solar power for anything else?
Plus you have to wonder how long before electric car owners start to pay more than the domestic cost of electricity.
Governments have milked petrol and diesel costs for years. Especially for most of my life when Australia was self sufficient in petrol. They used Singapore pricing and we suffered from overseas prices while the government trousered most of the money.
The moment the government(s) start to charge cars as luxury taxation items, as they have done for a century, no one will buy electric cars. So the whole electric car market is fake.
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Well, it must be possible because the ACT government and the major supermarkets all say they use 100% renewable power.
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I would love to see the length of the queue, apparently the Easter hols showed up a few weaknesses in the system.
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I’d never heard of this “sovereign tax” movement, but the ABC makes it seem like the biggest threat to “our democracy” since, well, the last biggest threat.
I would say there are growing numbers of people who don’t believe the somewhat ill founded and misleading spiel by the handful of sovereign tax dingbats, but they are well are truly fed up with seeing their tax dollars get pissed up against the wall by all levels and political shades of government. Double digit percentage increases in prices for just about everything don’t help either.
I doubt that any level of government is capable of the introspection required to recognise their part in the growing mistrust and lack of respect towards them.
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Supposed to refer to this link.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-08/financial-sovereignty-and-why-some-think-ato-is-not-real/103578948
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I see a lot of subtle insults and abuse of the people involved, but no refutation of their arguments. It read like any typical mainstream reporting of buzz-phrases by bureaucrats who really don’t know what the laws of their country are. They are told ‘This is your job and this is what the law says’ by their boss, and that becomes gospel. Just like covid officials, from start to finish.
Sure, you can be right and know the truth of what the constitution says, or your rights according to the Magna Carta, but you just get bulldozed and slammed in jail for going against the bureaurats.
NZ showed that the politicians have no idea about tax or how it is collected, but sure as hell they don’t want it disturbed!
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It’s the “sovereign citizen” movement.
I think that regardless of how immoral certain laws may be, those who follow it will eventually end up with big trouble with the law.
No politician or public serpent is going to respect your freedom no matter what the merits of any argument. There are better and more legal ways to “fight the system” but I understand their frustration.
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The war against the Australian energy supply continues….
The Property Council of Australia, whoever they are, propose:
Victoria is already doing this for new builds and subsidising the removal of gas hot water and heating in existing homes.
Once coal and gas is shut down in Australia, we will have no useful energy and Australia will become a failed state like most of Africa. South Africa is an example of how fast a once 24/7 mostly coal-based electricity supply can deteriorate and disappear.
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I’m surprised nothing much has been made of this relevation;
Paxlovid, which in Australia taxpayers are being hit for $1000 per dose, DOES NOT WORK AT ALL for treatment of Covid-19
And yet we know the almost cost-free “horse dewormer” (sic) Ivermectin does (or did for previous strains, presumably new bioweapon strains will be engineered to render it ineffective).
This has apparently been known for two years since July 2022 but conveniently just published.
Pfizer claimed 89% efficacy:
Hey Lefties, when are you going to apologise for mocking the Thinking Community over this?
Of course, those of us who follow the real science, not the Official Narrative are not the least bit surprised by this.
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So now we should demand to know how many people died from ‘Covid’ when it was in fact mistreatment that killed them. I include Paxlovid, forced respiration used in frail elderly patients with wet tissue lungs, refusal to use Ivermectin etc or plain old neglect, i.e. park them in a ward till they die (while the ward staff are making a dance video in the corridor). Then there are the many, many who were classified as Covid deaths when they fell off a ladder or got flattened by a bus.
Those Covid fatality numbers were criminally inflated, as many here knew at the time.
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A very personal revelation. I lost my wife of 56 years to Covid in late November 2022. She and I both caught it at around the same time. Possibly via infection caught in a commercial flight from Brisbane to Rockhampton shortly before we both displayed symptoms. I tested positive first and immediately inquired of the local pharmacies in our village whether they had the ‘new miracle’ specific anti-viral Paxlovid in stock. I was surprised to learn that one did have a course available, so I obtained it that evening but resolved not to start it until I had a confirmatory RATS test the next morning.
This follow-up test confirmed that Covid was still present even though I felt better. So I delayed commencement of the course. Then during the day (Saturday) my wife started to display mild symptoms which got worse into the Sunday when a RATS test confirmed she had caught Covid too. As a precaution she was admitted to the small local feeder hospital. When I first saw the hospital medico (Monday) I told him that I had a course of Paxlovid on hand and asked whether that would be of any use for my wife’s condition. His eyes lit up and a smile came to his furrowed brow. Certainly he said and explained that this small feeder hospital in the public system had no access to “Pfizer’s anti-viral miracle”. I hurried home to get the course and my wife commenced taking it that evening.
The medical staff and myself and family watched and/or communicated intently looking for the improvement we all felt certain would occur. It never happened. She remained ‘stable’ for perhaps 5 days or so but then gradually deteriorated until her passing. To be fair my wife was almost 80 and also subject to co-morbidities. Nevertheless, I attribute Covid to the final denouement and it is listed on her death certificate as such.
When someone close to you passes away you tend to torture yourself on what could you have done better to avoid or delay the event. If Paxlovid had not been touted and widely publicised in the MSM as a solution to the Covid problem I would have been much more active in trying to get my wife moved to a much larger base or private hospital in a nearby city. Hindsight is of course a marvelous thing.
Finally, don’t take pity on me. My wife and I had a great long life together with 3 tremendous kids and 7 delightful grand-kids, all in or well on their way to successful professional careers. But as for Pfizer: I can never forgive the directors of that company nor their pseudo ‘scientists’ that released what they must have known at the time was misleading information on the efficacy of Paxlovid.
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The following highly relevant comment was made by ‘Another Ian’ in the Wednesday thread (10 April 2024). Link: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/wednesday-51/#comment-2754090 . Enough said!
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Just imagine if Australia had not blown it’s future by throwing away money on wind and solar schemes and instead used the money on something useful like dams for irrigation (drought proofing), flood proofing and some real hydro.
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Floods prompt calls to revive dam wall plan
Heavy flooding and evacuations across Sydney’s fringe and the Hawkesbury region have prompted fresh calls for the government to revive a $3 billion plan to raise the Warragamba Dam wall, even as Premier Chris Minns insists better planning decisions are helping mitigate against floods.
Residents across Sydney’s north-west fringe began returning to their homes on Monday, even as major roads connecting Sydney to outer suburbs including Windsor, Richmond and Pitt Town remained closed due to debris and flood damage.
Mr Minns designated the weekend storms, in which more than 200 millimetres of rain fell over the Warragamba Dam catchment in 48 hours, a natural disaster for 13 councils, triggering swift financial support for people who lost their homes.
But residents in the Hawkesbury region experiencing their fifth major flood in 18 months urged the government to revive the former Perrottet government’s plans to raise the Warragamba Dam wall, arguing a spill on Saturday morning exacerbated the impact of flooding.
“The reason why there’s so much fear on the Hawkesbury flood plain is that when you get any serious rainfall coupled with a full dam, it just accentuates the damage,” Hawkesbury Mayor Sarah McMahon told The Australian Financial Review.
The dam was at 97 per cent capacity before heavy rain set in on Friday.
By Saturday morning, heavy rain had pushed dam levels to 100 per cent capacity, causing water to spill over the dam wall and downstream to the increasingly densely populated communities of Penrith, the Hawkesbury and other Sydney fringe suburbs.
The Perrottet government had a plan to raise the 142-metre dam wall by 14 metres, which it claimed would protect 10,000 homes from flooding in severe storms, and could also help 70,000 residents avoid evacuation.
But the Minns government shelved the plan, arguing that for its estimate cost of $2 to $3 billion, there were other, more effective flood mitigation strategies to pursue, which also carried less of an impact on the environment, native forest and heritage areas.
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Its better to shelve the plan, building higher for fear of drought or flood won’t solve the problem.
Cheaper to relocate all those in the flood plain.
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Good idea. In the meantime we could learn to manage dam levels. Wivehoe was stuffed up in QLD, this was mismanaged in Sydney, and at a lower level we have had unecessary flooding in the Goulburn Valley in VIC (Eildon Dam) as the alleged experts never seem to engage until its too late and leave no head room in the face of wet weather.
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This morning’s Australian
What does this mean?
“Institutional investors bankrolling the government’s renewable ambitions have warned that Australia faced a flight of capital from renewable projects due to policy risk as the Coalition claims that Labor is risking an energy capacity shortfall of 1.5 gigawatts a year, a 20 per cent shortfall by 2030 under the current trajectory.”
The subsidy harvesters, sorry, investors can see what the government cannot see. That as Australia goes dark with massive power shortages as planned, there just might be a massive reaction from the electorate. And lies will not work any more than the light switch.
And a sudden need to build fast and dirty coal power plants or free up gas. Or, God forbid, start fracking. Grabbing gas from any possible source.
The absurd story of fast, cheap, adequate renewables will be no laughing matter all the way to the bank when the lights go out and prices soar. And every politician knows it. Climate Change will be history. The ‘investors’ can see it clearly, even if Chris Bowen cannot do the calculations.
Which is why no one is tendering for more windmills, fantasy windfarms and solar farms. The free ride is over. The game is over. The rats are fleeing the sinking ship. The jig is up.
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Victoria has banned it under its Constitution.
There are moratoriums against in WA and TAS.
There are restrictions on it in NSW.
It’s all part of the regression of Australia to Net Zero, the rebranded Year Zero of the communist Pol Pot but even he couldn’t achieve his agrarian utopia.
These days the Left use less brutal methods such as dumbing-down the education instead of killing scholars, and shutting down the energy supply, introducing digital identities, diminishing the use of cash with a view to eliminating it, a war against the farmers (use of water, fertiliser etc.), etc., all things happening in Australia right now.
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I hope that last paragraph is true:
if so it’s awe inspiring!
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I have been reading through the news on Liddell. I wonder if AGL has a PLAN B which they have not told the government.
They would be crazy to carry the load for government mismanagement, and a critical power shortage would be a golden opportunity to make even more money while the government took the blame. And people would be grateful.
We had this before WWII when Rolls Royce planned for war with their Merlin V12 which powered most Allied aircraft and saved Britain. Even the Americans made them, under licence. But if Rolls Royce had not acted, we would be speaking Japanese.
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“Which is why no one is tendering for more windmills, fantasy windfarms and solar farms”
TdeF, this on todays headlines at News.com.
The fall to complete absurdity continues
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/federal-government-proposes-wind-farm-in-the-middle-of-a-whale-migration-route/news-story/81deb048ae6bd4e37be1aec06a4424dd
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Which completes the absurdity, Greens voters demanding protection of National Parks and whales while Communist Green governments destroy National Parks and devastate whales. Not all Greens are Green.
Communist Leninist lawyer Adam Bandt in particular who had no interest at all in Green or getting a real job until he saw the opportunity and now pushes Trot Albanese around. Both hiding their past. Red on the outside and red on the inside. His PhD was on communism on the Melbourne wharves, but it is never mentioned. This may become apparent to real Greens, even Green radicals like Dr. Bob Brown who is fighting Tasmanian windmills as he had to fight against the Gordon Dam. The new Greens are directed from China.
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Victoria doesn’t have to frack to obtain its Gippsland gas. And drawing that gas will also generate water for Gippsland farms – a win-win. But no, they still plan on building a gas import terminal. Sheer madness.
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Yes, I have read that many times. Amazing. It’s not in the papers at all or in the news cycle. Any idea why not? This would be the very low hanging fruit for someone wanting to fix the problem. Especially AGL
“The Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) was an Australian gas and electricity retailer, operated entirely by McCarthy Hanlin. It was formed in Sydney in 1837 and supplied town gas for the first public lighting of a street lamp in Sydney in 1841.”
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I believe that the Victorian Govt instigated a very biased “investigation” to “prove” that there was NO gas that didn’t have to be fracked. Not sure, but I believe the investigation carefully omitted the Gippsland gas field. Happy to be corrected on this.
The subject of the Gippsland gas availability pops up regularly in comments in The Australian, like today when gas import terminals are being discussed.
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Gaslighting is manipulating someone using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity and powers of reasoning. They say your memory is incorrect. They refuse to listen to you, make you feel unimportant or irrational. Medical Gaslighting. Doctors, Nurses and other health professionals dismiss symtoms from patiends, especially female patients 🙂
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AGL would be one of the oldest companies in Australia, what a shame they are the woke clowns they are in 2024.
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Err ?… what sort of metric is…. “gigawatts a year” ?
Does anyone up there really understand what they are saying ?
Note..
….Gigawatts is not a measure of energy capacity,..it is power.
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Chad,
There is a plausible interpretation. Given the current immigration rate, *maybe* the Libs have projected that we will need 1.5 GW extra total generating capacity each year, say 2024 25 GW, 2025 26.5 GW, 2026 28 GW, etc.
But I think it’s more likely just ignorance from whoever wrote it. 1.5GW for (say) half a million people is 3kW demand simultaneously from each of them. Do all our new immigrants have to sign up for EVs?
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Should be 1500 MWh.
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I must be missing something. Why would ‘investors’ care that power shortages may/will happen in 2030? By then, they would have harvested the grants and subsidies plus, if power truly is scarce, the price they can sell it for will rise. Also, the Albanese gov’t just tossed another lazy billion dollars at the net zero scam, suggesting the flow of money isn’t slowing down yet.
I agree that those investors are in many ways smart and know more then we do; I just don’t see why future power shortages present a risk for them.
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You are probably missing the sovereign risk aspect. All the investment in subsidy farming is based on certainty that the consumer theft will continue. Bowen and Also are failing to deliver NutZero because that is the only possible outcome. The market is already saturated without significant increase in storage. No one can push on a piece of string to move something and particularly someone as brain challenged as Bowen. LNP are following the part of the COP plan to build out nuclear.
So if nuclear is the only option to save the planet, why would the government continue to guarantee the current theft that makes WDGs economically viable. That is the sovereign risk. Remove the sanctioned theft and there is no economic case for WDGs.
Anyone who has read the last few AEMO reports will realise that grid scale WDGs are being displace by rooftops. The grid scale stuff has to respond to price signals. Rooftops do not so they always outcompete and they are now a significant slice of the lunchtime generation.
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..and why the AEMO want control of Rooftop inverters to be able to limit the level of demand reduction on the grid.
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“I just don’t see why future power shortages present a risk for them.”
It should present an advantage, I would have thought higher interest rates and lowering of govt subsidies would be the main impediment to investing in fairydust power.
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Some developments on vaccines and bird flu
” The jab narrative seems to be slipping slowly and inexorably out of the psy-operators sticky fingers. After being body-slammed by big pharma during covid, right on mental schedule, in his April 6th interview with comedian Andrew Schultz, Joe Rogan (6 million followers) began asking questions about the value of any vaccines:”
“What could go wrong? Remember, it’s for safety. Next … get ready! … yesterday, diverse marxist health overlord Tedros Somethingorother Whatshisname announced that the World Health Organization is getting all ready — only if needed — to create a new trillion-dollar market for global bird flu vaccines:”
“France reports avian flu at vaccinated duck farm”
“You know what? I’d actually be very interested in being vaccinated against vaccines. Do they have that one?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/saving-democracy-monday-april-8-2024?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And other things
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
aka Tawdry Anhydrus.
Jab, jab:
We’re from the WHO and we’re here to help you.l
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Who Who, who are we, Who Who.
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Hyped to the max by the lying media and WEF CDC puppets.
Government Demands Registry of All Chickens, Along with a Reason For Keeping Them
ALL poultry and captive bird keepers will be required to register their birds from Oct 1, the Government has said. This goes further than the previous rules which were only brought in late last year. Now, ALL poultry and Captive Birds will have to be registered with the UK Government, that includes all breeds of chickens, pigeons, and even birds of prey.
The only exemptions, currently, are budgies, parrots, canaries or similar species that are kept indoors or in a dedicated birdhouse without outside access.
Keepers will have to provide contact details, how many birds from which species are kept, as well as where and for what purpose. If you keep a few chickens as pets but consume their eggs, the government will wants to know.
By law you now must register all avian livestock by the 1st of October or, within 1 month of purchase, or face a £5000 fine. Even if it is just one chicken, kept as a pet in the garden, the rules still apply. In the small-print in those new rules, the Government also reserves the right to have the chickens destroyed if they believe their killing will prevent the spread of Avian Flu.
The WHO will, by de facto control ALL farming, Called ONE HEALTH, the WHO get to control all human food supplies. If they want you to stop you eating meat (and they do) then they simply have to say that it’s infected in some way, quarantine the animals to disrupt the food supply or even order their destruction.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/government-demands-registry-of-all-chickens-along-with-a-reason-for-keeping-them
Let’s see…past 60 days, avian flu cases primarily in north America, moderate level only, low impact in EU, virtually absent elsewhere. Human fatalities under 10, out of 8.1 billion people.
We may be looking at another global pandemic but it’s early days.
What is a good reason to own a chicken?
Like owning a firearm. Or soon, a car/boat/caravan/pets…
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This New Zealand doctor delves into the WHO’s supposed science…
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Taking-Away-Your-Chickens:4
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It’s all these migratory birds flying in from Siberia without a passport or a bird flu innoculation certificate.
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JC2
Even during WW2, the UK permitted up to 12 chickens to be kept – without, so far as I am led to believe, and paperwork [or affect on rations].
Now – one bantam – paperwork.
A ‘Conservative’ Government did this.
The ‘Daily Telegraph’ [London] has mentioned this – without approval!
But it makes work, of a sort, for the civil serpents’ children to aspire towards – but only if they can work from home, provided they’re not upset by – well, anything at all. And, presumably, they’ll pay tax.
After all, the country [the UK] is rich enough to have all these non-jobs filled [with overtime, and pension rights accruing].
Isn’t it??
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I weep for my country.
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A comment from SDA that goes with that!
“The PSA test is recommended in Ontario. OHIP doesn’t pay for it so there’s a $30 charge. My Dr mentioned that my PSA was a bit high last year and I’m awaiting the results from last month.
I’m starting to wonder if there is any medical test or pharmaceutical product that works. ”
(My bold)
More on PSA tests at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/08/assume-the-position-4/#comments
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Medical test results will vary from person to person. Which is why “normal ranges” are provided for the non-medically trained to “understand” the readings.
Unless those readings are significantly outside those ranges, what is far more important that your own base line reading results are understood (determined while you are “healthy”). Changes to those base line readings should provoke more interest than borderline normal readings.
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FWIW
“Safe and Effective®”
“A million here, a billion there…”
Wasted
Links at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/08/safe-and-effective-158/
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Watched the total solar eclipse from my backyard a fwe hours ago Magnificent!
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FWIW
” You might ask: Are we hostages to cycles, Astronomical, Kondratieff, the Maunder Minimum, Fourth Turning, the Great Wave. . .? Considering the feckless doings of our own society, we seem to be yielding to some final act of cosmic punishment. What is not falling apart? Our livelihoods? Our politics? Our money system? Our morals? Our common sense, our families, our relations with other societies, our infrastructure, our culture, our business models, our education, our medicine? Alas, our government still lurches along, gone mad-dog on its citizens as it desperately sucks all power and resources unto its inner engine like a red giant star preparing for death.”
More at
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/bang-and-whimper/
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Our current “leaders” who must be “on the take” in some way obviously believe that after the final collapse the new Roolers will thank them and elevate them to eternal bliss.
The reality may be somewhat different: perhaps head toilet cleaner in outer Ningxia?
Dan “fell” down those stairs, it was totally an accident.
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The stairs that were a few steps, the kid “T” boned the car, the car the wife was driving and not breath tested, the commonwealth games, reduced waiting lists at hospitals, improved response times for ambulances, etec etc etc. Feel free to add a few more KK.
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Eclipse in USA
“Bring on the doom porn; it’ll be good for all of us if New Madrid, San Andreas and all the others rupture. Oh, and rumor has it that the Yellowstone Caldera is bulging too, which could join in and seriously upgrade the party.
It is also rumored that throwing a virgin into a volcano will make sure the sun does not disappear forever. During the time that was common we didn’t have many politicians — now we have a surplus and darn few virgins, so we should definitely try a few hundred of the politicians first, just to see if they work.”
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251093
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Sacrifice some Kakistocrats and Golgafrinchams to the fire god. Sounds good. Where do we sign up?
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Not sure about bringing your own burning pitch [a petroleum product!] for torches, but this website, in that event, JC2, may provide one of your needs: –
https://www.securefixdirect.com/horse-stable-hay-pitchfork-farm-fork-manure-garden-black-15157-p.asp
Other suppliers of pitchforks are available.
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Bureau of Meteorology’s botched weather call crushes Elders’ earnings
Elders says the Bureau of Meteorology’s incorrect declaration of an El Nino event spooked farmers into culling their herds and fields, hurting the company’s earnings, which will come in “significantly below expectation”.
Weather forecasters declared an El Nino event – which would have meant a very dry summer, and the increased risk of heatwaves and fires – in September. But Australia experienced a very wet summer instead, with Victoria recording one of its wettest summers since records began early last century.
Elders, one of the country’s largest agribusinesses, told investors that the El Nino declaration had meant “subdued client sentiment” that only improved in January and February. The El Nino declaration led many farmers in NSW and Victoria to rush to sell their cattle, causing a price crash for beef and other farm commodities.
In turn, that hit Elders’ revenue and margins, the company said on Monday. Elders’ shares fell more than 24 per cent, closing $2.40 lower at $7.43.
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Yep, BoM definitely raised the red flag on El Nino strength, it was in fact quite weak.
When all the hysteria of a super El Nino was raging in the MSM only Wenju Cai (CSIRO) said it will be moderate, but nobody took any notice.
My first instinct is to work out whether its all the fault of the media creating a meme, who was the first to say super El Nino?
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Major El Nino events have been reported to cost up to AUD$10 Trillion.
Most of the costs are borne by tropical countries, while many developed countries have neutral economic effects. Some countries, such as the US get substantial net economic benefit.
Forecasts of El Nino events have consequences. Such forecasts prompt major shifts in investments away from regions that are likely to be adversely affected by an El Nino.
El Nino forecasts that are inspired by political motives unnecessarily redirect investments of hundreds of billions of dollars away from tropical countries and into economies like the US.
Why does the media give more credence than warranted to the likes of Readfearn? What is the real interest of such broadcast media?
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Readfearn is a zealot of the first order, had a bout with Lord Monckton and came off badly bruised.
The MSM beat up the super El Nino story (even though BoM held back in calling it) they were under immense pressure to come onboard.
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On July 4 last year the World Meteorological Organisation declared that an El Nino had developed in the tropical Pacific, forecasted to be “at least of moderate strength”, and that it would “greatly increase the likelihood of breaking temperature.”
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Exactly one year ago Graham Readfearn lit the fuse in the Guardian.
‘Some models are raising the possibility later this year of an extreme, or “super El Niño”, that is marked by very high temperatures in a central region of the Pacific around the equator.’
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It has been apparent for quite a few years now that Graham Readfearn, an AGW zealot, is The Guardian’s resident expert for all things climate related. He is a fully qualified pub worker, but last time I checked had no science, no geology, meteorology, climate or weather related quals.
That doesn’t necessarily mean he must be wrong or shouldn’t have opinions, but I wonder why The Guardian can’t publish articles more convincing.
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Guardian credibility is in the gutter, based on a couple of academic papers Readfearn constructed a fantasy.
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IIRC Lord Monckton shot him down years ago and he’s been trying to catch up since
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Yes , I’m sure we all remember the beef price crash in the supermarkets
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Scientists Now Claim Wearing Jeans is “Bad for the Environment”
Scientists from the Guangdong University of Technology have released a new study claiming wearing jeans is “bad for the environment.”
According to the report, wearing a pair of fast-fashion jeans just once creates 2.5kg of CO2, or the equivalent of driving a gas-powered car 6.4 miles.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/scientists-now-claim-wearing-jeans-is-bad-environment/
Go back to wearing animal skins, like the cavemen Ogg and Grogg (the inventor of alcohol) did then.
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I wonder what the environmental cost of wearing that pair of jeans for tenyears would be, compared to buying the latest fashion every year?
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Wearing quality, fashionable shirts can be good for the environment too.
Mrs H visited her sister in Malaysia and brought back some polo neck cotton shirts. I liked them so much I got her to bring some more when she returned.
I’m in the tropics and good summer weight shirts are hard to find so these were my “uniform” for years, every day. The best were Adidas and even today I wear them around the house because they are so thin you could read through them but they haven’t gone to holes.
If offered “name” brands o/s don’t assume they are rubbish, they may be made in the same factory with the same material in the same packaging but done so after official hours. They also need to make extra to cover warranty claims. I bought half a doz Burberry shirts dirt cheap in Manilla. The stall holder had to clear the XL size shirts cheap because the locals were much smaller. When my GP remarked on the shirt I said “Is that good?”, checking their price later they were US$250 each. While I have hardly warn them I have no reason to doubt their authenticity. Gave a couple to my son but he is a grot and I doubt he has ever worn them.
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It’s Tranny visibility day Tuesday!
https://imgbox.com/1RX36eoY
Best looking one I’ve seen yet! 😎
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And it appears that none of them can spell…
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There’s no ‘A’ in visibility.
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Darwin award? We need a new category.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sbkdh5T1Hq1w5pr9j.mp4
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Toyota’s CEO Just Said “We Refuse to Make Electric Cars and We’re Getting Fined for It”
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My Date with a Swedish Feminist Left Me Concerned for the Future of Western Civilization
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I prefer Finnish Feminist.
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Plant stomata is used to calculate the paleo history of CO2 in the atmosphere.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/04/08/scientists-selectively-reject-co2-measurements-that-do-not-align-with-the-human-caused-narrative/
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What can we do about the Albanese choice of next Governor-General?
A woman who has expressed in public many views that are not the views of most Australians. Excessively woke, no significant history of gainful employment, little to no experience in international affairs, politically aligned to the left ….
We can do better.
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Sounds like a pretty good representative for King Charles…
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Not much. We can only hope she doesn’t keep making ridiculous statements akin to those made by previous Australians of the Year ( eg. Adam Goodes, Grace Tame ). Hopefully just keep the GG role as ceremonial and keep her mouth shut. Here’s hoping.
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Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War – a Second by Second Timeline
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Woolworths in the news again last week. Wont be selling the tinned Anzac biscuits apparently, in-store. For whatever reason. So similar to the Australia Day fracas. Maybe they’re just un – Australian. But here’s the irony, I just bought a tin from ALDI. ( $9.99 with a donation built in to the RSL) which is German owned. So owned by a country that we fought against in 2 world wars.
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Who made the tin?
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4:18 on a wokday? On overtime G?
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Top International Virologist Issues Dire Warning: “Massive, Massive Tsunami of Death Among Highly Vaccinated…is Imminent”
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CCP ‘Goes Mad’ Over Pandemic: Doctors Must Deny COVID-19 or Be Sent To Mental Hospital
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Recycling is good for the environment, usually, isn’t it?
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/12439252/fenix-battery-recycling-fire-kilwinning-ayrshire/
Massive fire at Kilwinning battery recycling plant as explosions heard for miles and locals told to evacuate
Locals were ordered to leave their homes as acrid fumes engulfed the surrounding neighbourhood
by Lisa Hodge
Published: 1:00 [BST, GMT +1] , 9 Apr 2024 Updated: 11:22[BST], 9 Apr 2024
It’s the ‘Sun’, a red-top, and hence, occasionally, somewhat sensationalist, newspaper.
No casualty reported, which is a relief.
Pictures [in the link] certainly look as if evacuation of neighbours was a GOOD idea.
Not sure I’d want a battery factory – or a battery recycling plant, as here – next door to me.
Another roadbump on the way to the sun- [and wind-] powered uplands envisaged for us, possibly?
And, yes! There is a link on the BBC! [Shock Horror]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0klwg8128ro
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